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9 New Respiratory Illnesses added by the Veterans Administration on April 25, 2022
Posted on: April 27, 2022 - 9:37am

On April 25, 2022, VA announced that nine rare respiratory cancers are now presumed service-connected disabilities due to military environmental exposures to fine particulate matter. These cancers include:

Squamous cell carcinoma of the larynx

Squamous cell carcinoma of the trachea

Adenocarcinoma of the trachea

Salivary gland-type tumors of the trachea

Adenosquamous carcinoma of the lung

Large cell carcinoma of the lung

Salivary gland-type tumors of the lung

Sarcomatoid carcinoma of the lung

Typical and atypical carcinoid of the lung

VA will process disability compensation claims for these conditions for Veterans who served any amount of time in the Southwest Asia theater of operations beginning Aug. 2, 1990, to the present, or Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Syria or Djibouti beginning Sept. 19, 2001, to the present.